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Gal. 5:16-18</div> <bR> <div> <B>Present yourself </B><I><B><U>alive</U></B></I><B> from the </B><I><B><U>dead</U></B></I><B> to God 6:13-14</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Know, Reckon, and Present yourself alive to Christ </B></div> <div> <B>and you'll have victory in life!</B></div> <div> <B>Biblical Teaching on Deaths</B></div> <bR> <div>      There are nine categories of death in the Scripture.  When you are reading Scripture, you must be alert so that when you read the word death, you can reflect back on these categories, to understand better what Scripture is saying.  The word is the same in the text, whether Hebrew or Greek, but the context determines the meaning.</div> <div>      Death in it's basic meaning means “the separation of two things.”  We will apply this through all the meanings of death in this teaching.  We normally think of physical death when we think of death, as the separation of our soul from our body, but God wants us expand our thinking and recognize we need to grow in grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Physical death.</B>  This death is the separation of the soul (and human spirit) from the body at the point when God takes the life of the individual from the earthly existence.  Paul describes this in 2 Corinthians 5:1-8, where he describes how God allows our earthly body to give out, in, and up, because our bodies were not designed to last forever. Praise God that they don't, because when our bodies give out, God has an eternal resurrection body, made by Him for all believers.  Compare also Phil. 1:20,21; Romans 8:38,39.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Spiritual death.</B>  This death is separation from God, because of sin, which happens at the moment we are born physically.  We are born physically alive, but spiritually dead.  We are not spiritually dead, because we sin, but because we Adam's original sin is imputed to us.  Also, we sin, because we are born spiritually dead to God.  Adam was warned by God in the Garden of Eden to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  If he did, and he did, he would certainly die.  Now Adam did not die physically for some 900 years later, but he was spiritually separated from God, so that God has to go “looking” for Adam in the Garden.  Paul describes that spiritual death in Romans 5:12 as what happens to the entire human race, because we all sinned in Adam as our federal representative.  Compare also Romans 6:23; 1 Cor. 15:22; Eph. 2:1-5; Gen. 2:17.  There are two categories of spiritual death: real spiritual death that the human race experiences with God and the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of Jesus Christ on the cross (that was discussed in the insert of Romans 5:12-21).</div> <bR> <div> <B>Positional death.</B>  This death is when the believer is separated from his sins when he is identified with Christ's deaths and burial.  When you trusted Christ, you were identified by the Holy Spirit into Christ's deaths and burial.  Jesus Christ died twice on the cross.  He died spiritually from the Father, while He bore our sins and the Father poured out on Him the penalty for our sins.  Secondly, He died physically to show that He completed God's requirement on the cross.  Paul describes this in Romans 6:3,4; Colossians 2:12,20; 3:3.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Temporal death.</B> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>This death happens when the believer is separated from fellowship with God in time, because of personal sins.  The believer remains a child of God (John 1:12; 1 John 3:1-2), but can lose that intimacy, enjoyment, and fellowship with God, just like a child loses the enjoyment with a parent, because of disobedience.  Paul describes this as being carnally minded, which is death (Romans 8:6, 13). Compare also 1 Timothy 5:6; James 1:15; 1 John 3:14; Revelation 3:1.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Operational death.</B>  This death is similar to temporal death, but is specifically related to the believer living according to his works or human good.  Human good is living according to the energy and power of the flesh, while divine good is living according to the power of the Holy Spirit.  This operational death is when a believer is separated from the power of God's Holy Spirit producing the fruit of the spirit, because of human effort and dependency on the flesh, which results from the influence of evil. James 2:26 describes a dead faith because of not depending on the work of the Holy Spirit, which is human works instead of divine work.  The writer to the Hebrews describes it as “dead works” (6:1).</div> <bR> <div> <B>Sexual death.</B>  This is a separation of the ability to have children normally because of age.  Paul described Abraham's  sexual death in Romans 4:17-21 and the writer to the Hebrews includes both Abraham and Sarah in Hebrews 11:11,12.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The Sin unto Death.</B>  This is a separation of the believer (or can be unbeliever) from God's plan in time by means of physical death.  The person is no longer useful to God's plan and the life is characterized by constant rebellion and suffering in the soul.  James describes the believer who turns from God's judgment of the sin unto death in James 5:19-20 and John records instructions on how believers should pray concerning a person who is going through the sin unto death in 1 John 5:16.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Second death.</B>  This death is a separation of the soul of the unbeliever from any chance of restoration to fellowship with God.  It is an eternal separation from God.  Revelation 2:11; Heb. 9:27; Rev. 20:12-15.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Death in marriage.</B>  This death describes what happens in the death of a spouse or in the event of divorce.  The marriage is dead.  See Romans 7:1-3; Deuteronomy 24:1-4; 1 Corinthians 7:27-28.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id155.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Romans 6:1522"><U><B>Next Page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B><IMG SRC="0c740400.gif" border=0 width="64" height="64" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>